The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-11

| On this vida western sea, N lll-s II
From every Old.word prejudice ..
We shake our CANVASS ffeel fl'NII s5lN
With purcst creed and broadest faith, All.
With human freedom dear IHgf ~
@ TO every heart by right divine
| sfH We freight Our Volunteer: ,.t. .-i NNI, i.
sttBlu OF stubborn Scottish blood ~.
III avs yet our veins within, n.sH
So hail tho Yankee Volunteer Iy"NIsH
That only lights to wini, i.u 4.
s4. $40.
PROHIBITION IN Politics.
Hon. T. II. Cnrskation ssbmlts Rsaaons 10,
organizing the Third Party. =
To The Editor Of he Iate!lioeaetr. y.}s.N,' st
slR:-As You have frequently taken oc
caHion through the 1NTHLLlaEScRR to give
your leasona why there should be no third
party-Iemembering your claim to indie.
pendent journalism and offer to have both
sides Of tho temperance movement written
up Tor and printed in your valuable and
courteous paper, I am embolioned to ask
that you permit me, in behalf OF those Of
your readerG who think it their right and
duty to organize the third party, 10 give
their reaeons for 60 doing.
In Republic the government is the
dominant political party, ruling by virtue
Of having received majority Of the votes
cast, etc. To-day, and for that matter ever
slnce wO have been a nation, the attitude
OF our government has been one OF favor
to. or acqulescence In the, rum traffic
much OF the time the government receiy.
ing a revenue from it aud by this quiet rs.
sent, or sharing Of revenue, being guilty
Of completely. with 1t. This completely
with great crime, you, Of course Tor We
do, believe to be wicked and destructive
to and Of the bust interests Of the nation,
not only to tho moral but alec TO ita ma.
terlal and financial prosperity. And this
completely being in the way oflsws licens.
ing, or taxing the wrong, both by States
and nation, uaqusstionably make 1t leg.
lslGsiys and consequently political cues.
ton, which the party in power caa, so far
q, It's jurisdiction extends, allow or bro.
hihit "a ita wills. a.
Aa above intimated, the.attitude Of both
the old parties and the Government is and
has bseu o1e OF os1ent 10 and acorics.
aance IN tho trsGic-the General Goys,n.
ment by statutory permission in the Din.
.ricsoi Columbia and Soldiers' Homes, re.
iuseu inhibition III our vast territory, and
even Hickedly giving its permission to
ststea where there ia Stats prohibition o,
local option, thereby giving laid snd
comfort" to the universal enemy. So that
to accomplish anything worthy OF the
earnest effort OF intelligent, patriotic c;ti-
Fans we must change the attitude Of the
National Government to the wrong. How
wgs II in the great and HaaYen-iuso;ret]
Opposition to tho extension OF slavery lin
gioriously battling for which the ISTsL11
GENcEE did 30 much and won ior its noble
founder fame and honor mora enduring
than marble shaft or molument) Then
as now through the old Democratic and
Wing parties the attitude OF the Govern.
ment was favorable to the extension oil
the b!ishtiug curse.
What action did the levers Of right and
se!orm-the fathers Of the Republican
party-.ake, and advjee give to thcss on,
posed to that great evil? Did they sdyibe
longer dallying with tho old Wing party
occupying as 1t did then tho position oi
the Republican party now-being of the
two great parties most opposed to the ex,
teDelon Of the curse, as the Republican
plrty now claims to be most favorable tc
prohibition 25If'TI| -
Sumner, one Of tho abIcas and pursss Of
them all declared that Against freedom
both the old parties are now banded. Oh,
posed to each other in the contest fol
power they concur in opposing every of.
fort ior the establishment OF freedom,
under the National oonstitution. Divided
az parties they are one as tho Bupporters
Of slavery. On this question we can have
no sympathy with either, but mus. mecca
aarily oppose both. All who are aincerel,
opposed to elsyery, who desire to sc
sgainstit, who seek to bear teo.lmony fol
freedom, vino geek to carry into public
ahaire those principlss Of morality and
Christian duty which are the rule OF p.i
vate life, let them como out IRON
both the old partiea. In our third part,
with the declared friends OF freedom
prohibition they will find place i,
harmony with their aspirations" IN
Substitute the temperance in place O.
the slavery question in the above ant
you have just our views on the grea
question now sgitating this country ant
the world. F,|fls
Will you say the case0 are not na,sl!a
because the Republican party ID not 6
prohibition party? Such an assumption
you muas know ia agalnst the facts OF his
tory and the declaration Of the great lead
era and leading Journals Of tho Republican
party all over tho United States. Blaine
OF Maine, Gays: "The National Republican
patty (and there can DO no otherl ia mt {
prohibition party" Foraker, Of Ohio
sayH: "1he principles OF taxation snt
regulation Of the Republican party are
ssefnal." Sherman, Of Ohio, and tho Ohio
Republican platform say the same. The
New York Republican platform likowise
New York Tribune: "forakor Is oao o.
our leaders that has right to speak 70,
the party" Chicago Tribune: ."Pro,
hibition muat be prohibited in the Repub,
ican party" Cincinnati Commercial Ga,
sellt; "The Republican party has ita dis,
! siuct work to do and that OF prohibition is
not q part Of it. This might as we'll be
recognized now as hereafter and action
taken sccordlngly."-Iasus Of January II
1885, ut Is vain to say tho Republican
party must ard ahsll become o prohibition
party. II must and eholl do no such
thing. Thoee who IRE in It to make it SC
might rs well 20 ct once, Tor they will not
ed."-lesue Of February 7, 1887. (,
Then, 90 you see, 1t neusseaYily iollowa
ns neither Of the old partiee will or cEl
land live) advocate or socure prohibition
as Intelligent Christian voters those OF Va
who (as MIR. Sumner beautifully puts it,
seek 10 bear our testimony for prohibition
snd who seek to carry into public AFFAIR."
those principles Of morality and Christian
duty which sro the rule OF private life
must come out from both the old partie,
and join into the party OF tho deolsrei
friends Of prohibition. Not for the sake o
the party but the principles involved
Again, what is party Webster's eayn
"a number Of persons united in opinion
as opposed to the rect Of tho commuuit,
Ind aiming to influence aud cont.o! thu
general action.p Horace Greedy wisel,
said: II know Of no legitimate use for
party but to erbody and give effect t
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